Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.
Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.
It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.